hateful
history
Croatian
neo-fascists, under the cover of anti-commu- nism and with the
assistance of Croatian catholic church, flood the political
publications market with books aimed to revise the Balkan history of
1940's. Among the popular subjects, fouling and slandering of Josip
Broz Tito’s personality rides very high. And most of those books
are poorly written, either in a hurry or by mediocre authors.
Take
for instance "Tito’s secret years in Moscow, 1935-1940"
by Silvin Eiletz [Titove tajanstvene godine u Moskvi, 1935-1940,
translated from Slovenian, Metropress, Zagreb, 2008]. Mr Eiletz
counts himself among scientists although he himself is not sure if
he is a philosopher or a psychoanalyst. His achievements (easily
listed, there aren’t many of them) include lecturing on marxism at
the Jesuit University in Buenos Aires (what a coincidence!). To make
a respectable volume of 264 pages, Mr Eiletz besides 60 pages of the
document scans from the Moscow archive includes 38 pages on Yugoslav
communist purges 1948-1953, not whatsoever related to the title of
the book, plus 6 pages of very general treatise on the origin of a
communist genocidal mentality in Slovenia - not whatsoever related
to the title of the book but probably the crown achievement of Mr
Eiletz as a psychoanalyst which he couldn’t publish in any of the
scientific journals. Well, then, in the main body of the |
book
(116 pages) each fact and Eiletz’s conclusion upon it (however
feeble it renders) is mentioned at least three times, some of them
five or six times. Some psychoanalytic trick? Probably not, the
readers are lucky for the publisher not asking more than 264 pages.
Do
I have to tell you that in the 264 pages there is not a single trace
of some positive feature of Tito’s personality?
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